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If they have cameras in every room, why did it take a complaint from someone to do anything about this unprofessional nurse? Surely someone be watching the camera feed or review the videos after they are taken. You would thing a very good hospital would catch this kind of behavior before it went too far and a family had to complain.

I've been thinking about this and it would be unrealistic. They would need someone for every room, 24 hrs a day, just watching a monitor. Nurses are too busy to spend all their time watching one or three monitors continuously enough that they wouldn't miss something. Sure, there might be room monitors at the nurses' station, but there might be heart and other important monitors that have to be checked as well. It's far too easy to miss something. If and when computer AI (artificial intelligence) gets smart enough, then a computer could keep track.

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taxy, the "monitor" I referred to was not a medical monitor that a patient is hooked up to. Cat had mentioned that there are cameras in every room. I figured if a location (such as this hospital) goes through the expense of hooking up each room with a camera, there must be a room somewhere with an array of "TV" type monitors for someone to scan, watching for suspicious or malicious behavior on the part of staff, visitors, or patients. Otherwise, it seems like cameras are an unneeded expense on the hope that someone complains just to have archived video to refer to in case someone complains.

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taxy, the "monitor" I referred to was not a medical monitor that a patient is hooked up to. Cat had mentioned that there are cameras in every room. I figured if a location (such as this hospital) goes through the expense of hooking up each room with a camera, there must be a room somewhere with an array of "TV" type monitors for someone to scan, watching for suspicious or malicious behavior on the part of staff, visitors, or patients. Otherwise, it seems like cameras are an unneeded expense on the hope that someone complains just to have archived video to refer to in case someone complains.

Yeah, I realize you meant the monitors attached to the cameras. I meant that if those are in the nurse's station, they would have a bunch of those to keep an eye on and the medical monitors.

Even if there is a room somewhere with someone watching, how many monitors can one person watch at the same time and not miss stuff? There would have to be a minimum of one camera monitor per room. That makes for a lot of monitors in a hospital.

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I am very sorry for the behavior of this nurse, it gives all of us nurses a bad name, something we have to overcome and regain the trust of our patients. I am glad the nurse was fired.

More hugs for Joyce and you Dear Cat!

Hi! I'm back now! The day nurses were wonderful to me. It's only the one, Ogress. Just one. The problem is, you never hear about the other 99.9999% of great nurses who go above and beyond their duties. I had those great nurses. My faith in nurses hasn't failed at all. Neither has my respect and gratitude failed at all. You don't have anything to regain, ever.

I have come to know you a little bit, and I know for a dang fact you're a blessing to your patients. You can't help what others do on other shifts, right?

Please don't worry about that. And hugs back atcha!

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Originally Posted by taxlady

I've been thinking about this and it would be unrealistic. They would need someone for every room, 24 hrs a day, just watching a monitor. Nurses are too busy to spend all their time watching one or three monitors continuously enough that they wouldn't miss something. Sure, there might be room monitors at the nurses' station, but there might be heart and other important monitors that have to be checked as well. It's far too easy to miss something. If and when computer AI (artificial intelligence) gets smart enough, then a computer could keep track.

That's right. But when my laptop and things were taken, there was a man who pulled it up and showed it to the administrator, Gerry. He had to go back and find it, and he did. The tapes or whatever are are good for 90 days but the rest of them are archived for 7 years. He had no problem finding it.

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Originally Posted by Cooking Goddess

taxy, the "monitor" I referred to was not a medical monitor that a patient is hooked up to. Cat had mentioned that there are cameras in every room. I figured if a location (such as this hospital) goes through the expense of hooking up each room with a camera, there must be a room somewhere with an array of "TV" type monitors for someone to scan, watching for suspicious or malicious behavior on the part of staff, visitors, or patients. Otherwise, it seems like cameras are an unneeded expense on the hope that someone complains just to have archived video to refer to in case someone complains.

The hospital security system does watch entrances and stuff like that. But when there are over 800 rooms, the security folks can't keep track of all that. When there's an issue in a room like in the newborn OB/GYN and the daddy baby gets in a fight with new boyfriend, that's one thing. I only complained the next day.

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Originally Posted by taxlady

Yeah, I realize you meant the monitors attached to the cameras. I meant that if those are in the nurse's station, they would have a bunch of those to keep an eye on and the medical monitors.

Even if there is a room somewhere with someone watching, how many monitors can one person watch at the same time and not miss stuff? There would have to be a minimum of one camera monitor per room. That makes for a lot of monitors in a hospital.

I was hooked up to monitors at first. Those are different from cameras. If something goes wrong, the monitors will set off an alarm and everyone comes running.

Anyway I've explained enough. I am done here, tired, and I want to talk food. Glad to be back! And thank you all for thinking of me!